Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Path: utzoo!telly!druid!darcy
From: darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Subject: Re: Running DOS Programs while under UNIX
Organization: D'Arcy Cain Consulting, West Hill, Ontario
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 90 01:27:10 GMT
Message-ID: <1990Dec6.012710.19068@druid.uucp>
Keywords: DOS, UNIX, PC
References: <201@bigfoot.first.gmd.de>

In article <201@bigfoot.first.gmd.de> Thomas Hoberg writes:
>... I heard some rumors that Unix vendors are looking into
>DPMI (Dos Protected Mode Interface). With DPMI functionality integrated into
>the Unix Kernel and a GDI-to-X interface, running Windows applications under
>Unix would be a natural rather than a kludge. Maybe it's time to ask your
>Unix vendor about DPMI.....

No! Yucch! Not on my machine. Ptooie.  Barf.

Vendors, please keep this garbage out of the kernel.  If anyone wants to
run DOS they can get DOS.  Don't drag my system down to the lowest
common denominator.  That's what OS/2 is for.

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